Author Archives: hronk

They’re in Belltown now, partying with the young ones.

TV Tropes has an exhaustive rundown of all the ways everything’s better with chickens Chickens — small flight-inhibited birds with a tendency to break out in screeching panics over the smallest things — are inherently funny, like penguins and monkeys, … Continue reading →

Chickens are the solution to everything. I’ve been celebrating Easter by watching hundreds of cute ickle yellow chicks die horribly. And in the game. By which I mean Kyle Pulver’s avian-abusing puzzle-platformer Offspring Fling.

Sometimes people take their chickens a little too seriously. An attorney for the local activist known as the “Chicken Man” said Tuesday that he filed an emergency motion to fight the man’s eviction minutes before he killed himself by blowing … Continue reading →

Behold, the Giant Metal Chicken of Ballard!

Norm McDonald has a theory.

They are crafty.

I let the chickens out to rummage in the yard today while I hosed out their coop. I always lure them back in at the end with popcorn, but this time I poppeed it in advance, making sure to leave … Continue reading →

They are dangerous.

A co-worker sends this animated GIF along. Betsy refuses to post it.